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Isansys 'Smart Patch' Wireless Monitoring Platform Supports Early Interventions and Opens Potential New Pathways for Patients with Advanced Liver Disease

Isansys Lifecare, a digital healthcare company and developer of the Patient Status Engine, an innovative patient monitoring platform,and the Lifetouch wireless "smart patch" cardiac sensor, today announces the results of a study pointing to a new pathway for managing patients with advanced liver disease based on new methods employing data-driven biomarkers.

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Using a Smartphone to Detect Norovirus

A little bit of norovirus - the highly infectious microbe that causes about 20 million cases of food poisoning in the United States each year - goes a long way. Just 10 particles of the virus can cause illness in humans. A team of University of Arizona researchers has created a simple, portable and inexpensive method for detecting extremely low levels of norovirus.

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FRONTIERS HEALTH Comes Back to the Heart of Berlin: AXICA - Expect the Unexpected

13 - 15 November 2019, Berlin, Germany.
FRONTIERS HEALTH is a global event on digital health innovation with a strong focus on digital therapies, breakthrough technologies, healthcare transformation, investments and ecosystem development. This year the conference returns in the city centre of Berlin and exactly to the spectacular AXICA, located at Pariser Platz and directly at the Brandenburg Gate.

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Digital Health Leader Neuroscience

The Digital Health Leader is a subject matter specialist for Digital Health and provides subject matter expertise to the Digital Health initiatives and business processes for the assigned programs within Medical Affairs covering the following areas:

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Apple Health Records Available for Allscripts Clients

Allscripts (NASDAQ: MDRX) announced that Apple Health Records is now available for Allscripts Sunrise™, TouchWorks® and Professional EHR™ clients and their patients. Health Records brings together hospitals, clinics and the existing Apple Health app to make it easy for individuals to see their available health data from multiple providers whenever they choose.

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Philips Signs Agreement to Create Taiwan's First Fully Digitalized Pathology Department

Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), a global leader in health technology, today announced that Taipei Veterans General Hospital (TPVGH) will utilize the Philips IntelliSite Pathology Solution to transform its pathology tissue examination to digital diagnostics.

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Computer Model could Help Test New Sickle Cell Drugs

A team of Brown University researchers has developed a new computer model that simulates the way red blood cells become misshapen by sickle cell disease. The model, described in a paper published in Science Advances, could be useful in the preclinical evaluation of drugs aimed at preventing the sickling process.

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Professor of Digital Health with a Focus on Data Science in the Life Sciences

The University of Bayreuth is a research-oriented university with internationally competitive, interdisciplinary focus areas in research and teaching. The newly founded Faculty of Life Sciences: Food, Nutrition & Health on the University of Bayreuth's Kulmbach Campus is currently seeking to

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Simple Computational Models can Help Predict Post-Traumatic Osteoarthritis

Knee joint injuries, such as ligament rupture, are common in athletes. As the intact joint ligaments offer a precondition for joint stability, ligament injuries are often surgically reconstructed. However, in many cases these injuries or surgeries can lead to post-traumatic osteoarthritis. The articular cartilage, which serves to provide frictionless contact between bones, wears out completely, causing severe joint pain, lack of mobility and even social isolation.

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Invest a Billion for a Ten Billion Return

Opinion Article by Shane Tickell, Chief Executive, IMS MAXIMS
Recently, the Sunday papers and politics programmes were dominated by what the BBC called "a £1.8 billion cash-boost for the NHS."

From this we had learned that £850 million of this will pay for the "20 hospital upgrades" that Boris Johnson promised as he entered Number 10 Downing Street for the first time.

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